Accurate Boussinesq oceanic modeling with a practical, " Stiffened" Equation of State

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 41-70

  Shchepetkin, Alexander F ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic baroclinic mode splitting; Boussinesq and non Boussinesq modeling; Numerical stability; Seawater compressibility; Seawater Equation of State

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION MODEL; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC; BOUSSINESQ; CONTRACTION COEFFICIENTS; DENSITY MEASUREMENTS; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; EQUATION OF STATE; FAST MODE; FREE SURFACE MODELS; FREE SURFACES; GRADIENT FORCE; IN-SITU; MIXING PARAMETERIZATIONS; MIXING PROCESS; MODE SPLITTING; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NEUTRAL SURFACES; NUMERICAL STABILITY; OCEANIC MODEL; OCEANIC MODELING; PRESSURE DEPENDENCIES; SALINITY FIELDS; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SIGMA-COORDINATES; STABILITY FUNCTION; TEMPORAL FILTERING;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSIBILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; STABILITY; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EQUATIONS OF STATE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADIABATIC PROCESS; ALGORITHM; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC MODE; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATION OF STATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 79954417663     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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